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(J. f. 0. 1861, p. 243) right in regarding the Venezuelan form 

 as the true lineaticeps. 



Besides the paper just noticed. Dr. Salvadori^s kindness has 

 supphed us with two others which he has contributed to the 

 Eleventh volume of the ' Atti ' of the Italian Society of Natural 

 Sciences. The first of these is the Italian version of the article 

 on new Procellariidce which appeared in our last number {vide 

 supra, pp. 61-68) ; and the second is a description of two new 

 species of Caprimulgidce, on which the names Stenopsis macro- 

 rhyncha and Scotornis nigricans are conferred. 



4. Dutch. 

 Dr. Finsch having now completed his Monograph on the 

 Parrots *, which we briefly mentioned on a former occasion (Ibis, 

 1868, p. 112) it becomes our duty to give our readers a more 

 extended notice of it ; and the duty is a very pleasing one, on 

 account of the extraordinary pains and thorough conscientious- 

 ness which the author has devoted to his subject. The whole 

 work is divided into two parts, of which the first contains the 

 General, and the second the Special natural history of the 

 group. After a concise introduction. Dr. Finsch gives an histo- 

 rical and literary survey of his subject, wherein he treats of the 

 Parrots of the ancients and of the middle ages; and then follows 

 an abstract of the literature relating to the group, from Aldro- 

 vandi to the present time, with a few other matters. To this 

 succeeds a very full account of their " outdoor -life," in which 

 every aspect of their habits seems to be considered; and then a 

 very well executed sketch of their distribution, which, being 

 illustrated by a map, or, to speak more correctly, by five maps on 

 one plate, forms certainly one of the most valuable portions of the 

 whole work. After a chapter on the well-known disposition for 

 wit which most Parrots display, their form and external structure 

 are generally described, as well as their feathering and anatomy, — 



* Die Papageien, monograpliisch bearbeitet von Dr. Otto Finsch. 

 Zweiter Band. Leiden : 1868 (London, Williams and Norgate). 8vo, 

 pp. 996, pis. 2-6. 



